Tuesday, October 14, 2008

CONTENT CATEGORIES...

The Writing Skills Placement Test helps institutions determine whether students are ready for entry-level writing courses or other courses with significant writing loads, or whether students require developmental writing instruction prior to entry into those courses.

- The test items include the following content categories:

Usage/Mechanics

a)Punctuation - the punctuation marks must be use appropriately with their function.
b)Basic grammar and usage - student should be aware of tenses and others grammatical usage.
c)Sentence structure - the sentence must be well structure.

Rhetorical Skills

a)Strategy - how the student generate the ideas using a various strategy.
b)Organization - the essay should be manageble.
c)Style - student should apply an apprropriate writing style or approaches that show their crediblity in writing the essay.

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